The Spring 2024 field school begins!
Happy new year! I hope you all had peaceful holidays. The spring 2024 TBI field school is off to a great start. The students arrived in Nairobi on the 18th of January and we spent the first two nights...
View ArticleEcological adventures at Mpala Research Centre, Laikipia County
The first week of the semester kicked off with the ecology module at Mpala Research Centre (MRC) led by Dr Dino Martins, who is one of the world’s leading experts in East African ecology. The plants...
View ArticleThe Great Grevy’s Rally
The students spent their weekend at Mpala Research Centre taking part in a unique community science research project. The Grevy’s zebra is a distinctive and endangered species of zebra found in Kenya,...
View ArticleAn ecological shift: from Mpala to Turkana!
Hello all, this entry of the blog comes to you from Edmond and Phoebe, two students at the TBI Origins Field School. On Monday (the day after we had completed the Great Grevy's Rally) we all flew in...
View ArticleThe Intricate Beauty of Geology
Greetings from the hot and sunny Turkwel, Turkana! It's Mishy and Alisa reporting on our first week of the Geology module with Professor Patrick Gathogo. Let’s go through some highlights and key...
View ArticleField geology at Lothagam and Napudet
In our final week of Geology, Dr. Gathogo took the students out in the field to explore the Miocene and Pliocene sediments in the Turkana Basin. This provided an opportunity for the students to apply...
View ArticleA stormy tale of cladistics and bone identification at Ileret.
This week’s blog comes from Simone and Sedona, and we’ll be talking about our experiences during the first week of the vertebrate paleontology course, which is also the field school’s first week while...
View ArticleBuluk 2024: A Paleontological dream meets a Meteorological nightmare!
Hello readers of the TBI Origins Field School blog, providing updates and a recap of this past week are students Maddie, an undergraduate at Stony Brook University, and David, a postgraduate student at...
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